Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 18, 1891, Image 2

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Jtoaps and Jfads. ? City Attorney Warder of Chattanooga, who recently shot and killed his son-in-law Simpson Fugett, in that city, is said to be hopelessly insane. if. A. feH. Stewart, eix-secretary of the interior in President Fillmore's cabinet, and member of the Peabody educational board, died at hb homeat Staunton, Virginia, last Friday. ? VI. *. Albung ofNorwIct, Vermont, was tried and convicted last week on 723 out of 1,000 indibtments, for selling liquor without a license. He was sentemced to pay a fine of $8,000, or go to the penitentiary for sixtythree years. ? The New York Herald has taken a vote of the various legislatures now sitting throughout the United States in their choice between Hill and Cleveland as the next president." The canvass included twenty-seven States and the vote resulted: Cleveland, 1,515; Hill, 199; doubtfbl or scattering 278. ? It will be remembered that on the occasion of the recent financial crisis, caused by the 'failure of Baring Bros., the London bankers, the Bank of France loaned the Bank of England ?3,000,000 in gold with which to avert the impending panic. The first installment of ?1,000,000 was returned last week, and it is said that the boxes in which it was originally shipped have never been opened. ? "Governor Hill," says the Philadelphia Record, "did not write a silver letter when he was invited to the Reform Club meeting. Neither did he write an anti-silver letter. He did not write at all, nor say yea or nay. It may be a very crafty and deep thing not to have any opinions upon uppermost topics when opinions are sought for. But the people do not like'that sort of ostrich loftiness." ?X Chicago dispatch of last Wednesday says that the whisky trust has been detected in a diabolical plot to blow a competitor out of existence with dynamite. George T. Gibson, secretary of the trust , has been arrested and it has been proved that he has offered a revenue officer named Deware, $15,000 to blow up Shufeldt's anti-trust distillery. Gibson waived examination and was placed under a $20,000 bond. A subsequent dispatch says that he has skipped for Europe. ? The delegation of Sioux Indians in Washington last week told the commissioner of Indian aflairs that the hattle at Wounded Knee was nothing less than a wanton butchcry on the part of the soldiers. They charged that the whole thing grew out of a desire to avenge the slaughter of Custer's command some years ago. After a thorough investigation of the whole matter by General Schofield, however, it has been decided that the soldiers not only acted with -the most commendable courage, but showed astonishing forbearance. ? A destructive fire occurred in the New York postoffice about 10 o'clock lest Satuday night. It originated in the engine room and had made such headway when discovered that it was with the greatest difficulty that the building was saved. Two news1 ?*- - 1?? * tka DOJ8) WOO I1SU Cnspv 1UIV Yxuuiaiuio iv vuv underground room to get out of the cold, were badly burned, and if is thought that the injuries of one of them will prove fatal. At the time the fire occurred the employees were engaged in making up the Western mail, comprising over 300,000 letters, but they were all saved, and the only mail matter burned was a few hundred sacks of newspapers. The aggregate loss is about $25,000. ? The utter annihilation of time and space by electricity was never better illustrated than by an incident which occurred on the coast of India, where two English ships were repairing a telegraph cable near Bombay : "The two ships were but half a mile apart, one of them holding the shore end of the cable in close communication with Bombay, the other having the sea end, which was connected with Aden. It became necessary for the two ships to communicate with each other in order to complete the work. This was done by one of them telegraphing to Bombay and thence around to Aden, and the other from Aden around to Bombay. Thus, as a speedy meaus of sending messages a half mile, they were sent around by a route nearly 4,000 miles in length." ? A New York Herald reporter called on Ex-President Cleveland last Wednesday in reference to the Watterson letter to Governor Hill. Mr. Cleveland refused to say anything about the letter and handed it back without comment. In answer to a question about the meeting of the governor and himself at a dinner recently, Mr. Cleveland said the meeting was looked upon as something extraordinary. "Governor Hill and I," said Mr. Cleveland, "Have, ever since i leu me gubernatorial chair, been on the very best of terms. Every time. I have been to Albany, or passed through it, I have called on Governor Hill. Why should we not be on cordial terms? The evening of the dinner Governor Hill was visiting an armory in this city and he came,. JVe had no private conversation. All that happened was stated in the newspapers." ? Admiral David Dixon Porter died at his home in Washington last Friday, ,of "fatty degeneration of the heart." Admiral Porter was the only admiral of the United States navy, and was in the 88th year of his age. He entered the navy in 1829 as a midshipman. In 1841 he was promoted to lieutenant, and with that rank entered the Mexican war. Participating in all the battles along the coast, he was finally promoted to the command of the Spitfire, and so continued until the breaking out of the civil war. During the civil war he was four times accorded a vote of thanks by congress, and in 1866 was promoted to vice-admiral. With this rank, he served as superintendent of the "Voval AfufJpmv at, Annanolis until 1869. when he was detailed for duty in the naval department at Washington, and the next year he was made an admiral. In a report recently submitted to the president, Secretary Blaine shows that the United States undoubtedly has the big end of the bargain that has been made with Brazil. The importation into Brazil of the articles included in the treaty stipulations, amounts in the aggregate to $58,635,182.46 annually. Heretofore the United States has only been furnishing $5,430,532 worth of these articles, and the balance has been coming from abroad. By the new arrangement, after the first of April uext, our government will have the advantage of all others in not having to pay any duty, and will probably monopolize the whole Brazillian trade. In return for this concession on the part of Brazil, that country is given a free market in sugar, molasses, coffee and hides, of its own growth and product, in our ports. ? Now that military service has been rendered obligatory throughout the length and breadth of continental Europe, the various governments concerned have become alive to the fact that every male child born constitutes a future recruit for the army, and so keen is the competition among the powers to possess the largest number of soldiers, that their legislatures and parliaments are being called upon to deal with measures destined to foster and encourage the growth of large families. The French chambers have before them a bill for the imposition of a heavy tax on bachelors, with the object of discouraging celibacy, while the Prussian landtag is at present engaged in the discussion of u project presented by Emperor William for the assessment of the income, or class tax, proportionately to the size of the family. The young monarch recommends that a certain deduction be allowed tor eacn cnuu of persona whose incomes amount to less than 3,000 marks, and in this manner families of half a dozen children would prove sufficient to exempt the parents from any payment of the iucome tax. ? A New Orleans, La., dispatch says that Stanhope Turnbull, a young man, and a member of an old Mississippi family, has been given a coat of tar and feathers from head to foot and marched naked through the streets of Woodville, Wilkinson county, Mississippi. Turnbull recently came to New Orleans and was married to a handsome young Woodville quadroon, Charity Hampton, and on returning home with his bride was arrested and jailed at Woodville, charged with violating the Mississippi law forbidding the marriage of whites with colored where negro blood is one-fourth present. As the marriage took place in Louisiana the court had to discharge them. As Turnbull started to leave the courtroom he was seized by citizens, members of a society regulating organization, stripped, and tarred and feathered. In this condition he wus marched through town, the females of the city having been notified to keep indoors, and escorted to the Mississippi line. The Turnbulls are related to the first families of West Feliciana parish, Louisiana. The negro bridle will not be molested, as no odium attaches to her in Mississippi. ftorMle tatyrim. YORKVILLE, S.~C.: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1891. GEN. SHERMAN IS DEAD. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman died at his residence in New York city at half-past ' 1 * > Un one O'CIOCK msi BUluruuy nuciuwu. I.v had been ill several days, and his death was j due to a combination of diseases, mainly erysipelas and asthma. General Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, on February 8, 1820. He graduated at West Point in 1840, and on entering the regular army was assigned to duty in the South, where he remained until 1853, when he resigned his commission. He then engaged in various business enterprises and finally became superintendent of the Louisiana Military school, at Alexandria, a id was connected with that institution in 1861. When the war broke out, it is said he was4undecided as to which causfc to espouse. 'Tie thought the South was right, but he believed that the North was stronger. He was hastened to a definite conclusion as to the course he would pursue, however, by the receipt of an appointment as colonel in the United States army. Of his career in the war it is unnecessary to speak. There is scarcely a half-grown boy in the South who cannot tell the story with more precision and truth than any school history for the next fifty years. It was he who made the famous "march to the sea," over a defenseless country, laying it waste with fire and sword, glutting himself with rapine and murder, and leaving helpless women and children to starve in his widecut path of desolation. There will be few tears shed in the South at the news of Sherman's death. When Gen. Grant died, our people were willing to concede that an able soldier aud statesman had gone to his reward, and on every hand was heard sincere expressions of sympathy and recret. But we can very well spare Sherman, and no one in the South will feel the loss. He has our permission to take up his march to the unknown sea. aud we believe that he will be welcomed by thousands of his old soldiers who would be glad to follow him to water. CLEVELAND AND FREE COINAGE. Ex-President Cleveland has written a letter that has created a political sensation. It expresses his views on the free coinage of silver question, and whatever may be its effect on the passage of the proposed measure, it seems to have so intensified public sentiment one way or the other that matters will probably be brought to a speedy crisis. The letter was addressed to the chairman of an anti-free coinage mass meeting held in New York last Wednesday night, and is as follows: E. Ellery Anderson?My Dear Sir: I have this afternoon received your note inviting me to attend to-morrow evening a meeting called for the purpose of voicing the opposition of the business men of our city to the free coinage of silver in the United States. I shall not be able to attend and address the meeting as you request, but I am glad that the business interests of New York are at last to be heard on the subject. It surely cannot be necessary for me to make formal expression of my agreement with those who believe that the greatest penis would be initiated by the adoption of the scheme embraced ' * mMunM nnu' umidinc in i!oneress for an unlimited coinage of silver at our mints. If we have developed an unexpected capacity for the assimilation of a largely increased volume of currency, and even if we have demonstrated the usefulness of such an increase, these conditions fall far short of insuring us against disaster, if in the present situation we enter upon the dangerous and reckless experiment of free, unlimited and independent silver coinage. Yours very truly, (irover Cleveland. When the letter was read to the meeting, of course it was received with unrestrained enthusiasm, but its effect on the country at large has not been so unanimous. "At Washington next day," says the correspondent of The Atlanta Constitution, "nothing else was talked of, and Mr. Cleveland came in for more than one man's share of criticism. The Democrats believe the letter was written at the request of the Wall street gold bugs, for the purpose of strengthening the backbones of the anti-silver Democrats in the house, in order that free coinage might be defeated. "On the other hand, the single standard Republicans?the adininistni.tionists?are jubilant over the letter. They were praising Cleveland in the highest terms to-day, because he brouglit up an issue upon which they believe the Democratic party will split all to pieces. "And now they are willing for a silver bill to be reported. They will prevent it being adopted into a law, but are determined to make the issue prominent, in order to create discord in the Democratic ranks." Following is the above correspondent's report of interviews with leading congressmen : Mr. Bland of Missouri, the leading advocate of free coinage, said every one must see that Cleveland has made a mistake. "The farmers of the West, Northwest and South are solidly banded together on these propositions of the freedom of States, the constitutional money of our fathers?free gold and free silver?and they propose to press the fighting 011 that line. Mr. Cleveland's letter makes his candidacy for the presidency ridiculous. He will have 110 following west of the Alleghany mountains." Mr. Kerr of Pennsylvania, chairman of his State committee?The West, Southwest and South cannot support Mr. Cleveland after that letter. The letter will, however, help Mr. Cleveland in Pennsylvania. Mr. Heard of Missouri?111 my opinion it puts Mr. Cleveland out of the race for the Democratic nomination, unless this congress should pass a free coinage bill, and the silver coinage question thus cease to be an issue. Senator Vest of Missouri, and Mr. Mills of Texas, declined to express an opinion. Mr. Breckenridge of Kentucky, replied with a smile?My opinion is that (trover Cleveland will be the candidate of his party in '92. Mr. V. Culberson of Texas?Unless the Democracy and the Farmers' Alliance ofthe South and West are prepared to abandon their position on the silver question, and allow Wall street to formulate the linancial policy of the party, Mr. Cl eveland has placed himself outside ofthe list of eligibles. Mr. Luwler of Chicago?I think he had rather be right than president. No doubt he expressed his honest convictions. Mr. Pockery of Missouri?I don't think our Democrats will like it. Mr. Vaux of Pennsylvania, a goldbug?It is a grand letter. Cleveland is the grandest man in America. He will be nominated and | and elected as sure as hell is hot. Mr. Bynum of Indiana?It is a long time before the Democratic presidential convention. I was not surprised, for it was well known what views Mr. Cleveland held on this subject. In the West, where Mr. Cleveland is strongest, the sentiment for free coinage is overwhelming. In that section the letter will be injurious to his chances, unless the silver question is settled before then. Free coinage will cut a large figure in the next convention, whether it is put iu the platform or not. It is too early to make predictions as to the presidential nominee. Mr. Cummings of New York?The next Democratic platform will contain a free silver plank. A man nominated must stand on it. No other need hope for success. Colonel Tillman of South Carolina?Hej was politically dead before he wrote this let-1 ter, and I don't care to kick a dead man. Judge Crisp?I am sorry Mr. Cleveland j saw lit to write that letter. A vast majori-! ty of the people of the country favor free coinage and the people are right. Mr. Candler of Georgia?He has made a fatal mistake for himself. The country wants free coinage, and intends to have free coinage. The letter destroys Mr. Cleveland's chances for renomination. The Democratic party will never nominate any man who is opposed to the restoration of silver as a currency metal. Mr. Robertson of Louisiana?He's gone now. Free coinage is a principle. Cleveland is a man. The principle will outlive the man. Mr. Carlton of Georgia?Mr. Cleveland's letter knocks him entirely out of the way as a probable presidential nominee in '92. To make him our candidate now would give new life and force to a third party movement. Mr. Cleveland has never been in accord with his party on silver. If he and Mr. Manning had only carried out the law during his administration, and purchased silver up to the full amount of $4,000,000 a month, we would not now be confronted with the silver question as a party issue. As you remember, he reduced the monthly purchase to $2,000,000. Yes, I consider Mr. Cleveland out of the way. Mr. Lewis of Mississippi, an Alliance congressman?The letter defeats Cleveland. All the strength of the Farmers' Alliance will now be thrown against him. nf A laKnmn?.U? iii cnrmtHtcnt. V/Ul# Viilto l/i AiauwmM ??v It would seem now that this letter will array the South and West against him, but public opinion is fickle, and there may be a change in six months. Following are three opinions from the leading Southern dailies: Augusta Chronicle. It is not improbable that there will be some compromise on the siljver ^question. Unlimited coinage would mean the free stamping of all the bullion of the world by the mints of the United States. This would make this country the dumping ground of the earth and would drive out gold. The bill will probably be amended so as to contine the coinage to American silver. Mr. Cleveland's letter must command respect even from those who differ from him in policy. He has not hesitated to express his real views in the face of certain opposition. He cleaves to what he believes is the safest and most conservative policy, and we cannot deny that he has the support of the business element of the North and East, and a part of that of the South. The Chronicle has expressed views at variance with Mr. Cleveland on this and other issues, but we commend now and have never failed to commend, his sturdy consistency and his outspoken expression of principles and policies. Charleston News and Courier. Mr. Cleveland does not believe in the unlimited coinage of silver any more than he believes in the unlimited coinage of copper or the unlimited printing of paper dollars. He is in favor now, as he was in favor when he wrote his much-abused letter to Mr. Warner six years ago, of a volume of currency sufficient to meet the business and commercial requirements of the country, of a financial policy which will not depreciate the purchasing power of a dollar and inflict suffering upon every humble home in the land. The unlimited coinage of silver dollars would strike a serious blow at every industry except, perhaps, the industry of silver mining, and only serve to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. "Saddest of all," as Mr. Cleveland said in his Warner letter, "in every workshop, mill, factory, store, and on every railroad and farm, the wages of labor, already depressed, would sutler still further depression by a scaling MiMAbnoSnff nnivnt* nf OVPPV ATI UUWII U1 IUU |IU1 UliUOlUg j/vn V* v* Vfv.j called dollar paid into the hand of toil." Atlanta Constitution. Thus, whatever doubt may have existed as to the propriety or possibility of nominating Mr. Cleveland as the Democratic candidate in 1892, has been promptly and effectually dispelled by Mr. Cleveland himself. By a stroke of the pen he has disposed of all the chatter and babble about his candidacy, and has made his renomination by the Democratic party impossible. That he has taken this step deliberately, after giving the mutter due consideration, we have no doubt. Nor do we have any doubt that he knew what the eifeot of the loiter wouhl he. The conclusion is inevitable that Mr. Cleveland is not and has not been a candidate for renomination, and he has taken this method of so assuring the Democratic party. It is not, as might be supposed by some who do not understand the situation, a round about way of announcing that he is not a candidate for the Democratic renomination in 1892. On the contrary, it is a peculiarly blunt and direct method, and the blindest hero worshipper in the country cannot misunderstand it. So the wheel turns. If Mr. Watterson had waited a few days he would not be under the painful necessity of writing his remarkable letter to Governor Hill, or of giving it to the public after it was written. An old man who had been through the hurly-burly had for his motto, "Patience, and shuffle the cards." The wisdom of it still shines forth on the hurrying and jostling crowd. At the request of a correspondent of The New York World, Governor Tillman has given that paper his opinion on the silver bill. It is as follows: "Mr. Cleveland's letter does and ought to take him out of the field as the Democratic candidate for president. More harm results to the South and West from the financial policy of the government than from all other causes combined, and until we have a larger circulating medium, based on a bi-metallie standard, the producing classes of the country will find themselves between the upper and nether millstones. The Alliance cannot and will not in my judgment support Mr. Cleveland or any other man as long as his financial policy is in sympathy with Wall street and in the interest of Western capitalists and monopolies." THAT WATTEKSOX LETTER. On the first page of this issue, in connection with the "reconciliation" of Cleveland and Hill, is printed a remarkable letter from Henry Wattcrson that is supposed to have been instrumental in bringing about the friendly meeting between these two prominent presidential candidates. When the j letter appeared in print, it produced a deep ; sensation, which was still further intensified J by the statements of Governor Hill. He telegraphed the Associated Press as follows : "I never received any sueh letter. It is the first I have heard of any such thing. It must be a forgery. Mr. Watterson is a good | Democrat and a gentlemen, and I believe! him incapable of addressing any such insult- J ing and impertinent communication to me. j The resort to such a silly and impudent forgery was probably intended to place me j in a false position by reason of recent events in this State ; but it will surely injure the cause it was designed to aid and react upon its authors." The following is Mr. Watcrson's reply to the above: Loitisvii.lk, Ky., February 12.?I wrote the letter to Governor Hill, audi was impelled to do so by motives the sineerest and most disinterested. There appeared in many of the great newspapers last Sunday a sensational account of how a caucus of United States senators had resolved upon retiring Governor Hill from the presidential arena,' of how I had been elected as the instrument of these senators, and of how I had dispatched him a letter potent enough to alter his plans. Whence this fantastic story emanated I cannot divine, hut it was so absurd and did such injustice to both Governor Hill and myself, that I thought, as I still think, that there could be no objection on the part of anybody to the publication of the truth, j which flatly contradicted it. 1 was induced to this by the circumstance that Gov. Hill seemed to have adopted a course suggested by considerations alike honorable to his character and creditable to his judgment, the more so, indeed, since the letter in question furnished him and his friends testimony to answer and refute the most odious and widely circulated calumny, I confess that I am surprised that Gov. Hill should make such haste to disavow and disown a course which, however prompted, gratitied every! Democrat in the I'nited States outside of the State of New York, removing him at once from a field of mere political scheming j and self-seeking, and placing him in the front j rank of the statesmen having the good of the country and party at heart. i I am equally distressed by the representation that Governor Hill should regard my plain but friendly words as impertinent and insulting. I did not so intend them. I can-: not help thinking that the same words might | be with propriety addressed to him or to any Democratic aspirant by the humblest Democrat in the land, and I still hope that, annoyed by a publication which annoyed me as well, he has proceeded upon a misapprehension of the facts of the case. I can assure him that neither in the writing or printing of my letter was there any purpose to take an advantage of him, and! least of all, to do him injustice. I am no man's man and exist in no man's interest. To use his own happy expression: "I am a Democrat," who has passed a lifetime in the service of the principles and policies from which I have never sought the slightest personal recognition or reward. I am only humiliated by the reflection that this service was not suflicifent in the estimation of Governor Hill to protect me against his displeasure, and that in the narsn construction which he puts upon a genuine and not a forged letter, he visits me with what I must regard as unmerited suspicion. Henby Watterson. In answer to this manly and straightforward explanation, Gov. Hill has made another statement. It is as follows: "I have only this to add. Mr. Watterson now affirms that the letter felt to be offensive in its defense of me and in the motives and role assigned to me was in fact written by him, and in fact written at the time of its date. My reasons for believing the letter a forgery were these: First, I had never received it; second, I thought that Kentucky good manners "would have required my receipt of the letter and my assent before its publication; third, it says the writer never held office, and I remember Mr. Watterson's brilliant career in congress. I do not seek to fathom Mr. Watterson's motives, and I accept whatever explanation he offers." Notwithstanding the above denial, the question now is, "Did Hill receive the letter Many believe that he did and acted on the line of policy therein blocked out. Its publication, however, has very much embarrassed his political aspirations, and he is now in a quandary as to what course to pursue. His friends and managers have decided that ?nder the circumstances it is best to "deny everything," and it seems that he is carrying out their advice us well as he can. ? ?... ?? /ifM.mn j I f I 1 V/1D AUIWKSN TU THE STATE ALL/IA.U/C.. The last issue of The Carolina Spartan prints the following address of President J. Win. Stokes to the Alliance in South Carolina : The pas'; year has been one of unusal crises. Every timber in the old ship of State has been put to the severest test. The struggle has been ostensibly between the old parties, but in reality it has been a struggle between organized monopoly, which has laid unholy hands up the old party organizations on the one hand and the ]>eople 011 the other. The most potent factor in the revolution wrought was beyond doubt the Farmers' Alliance. .All unsuspected by the party bosses, unconsciously to itself, this young giant left an ineffaceable mark wherever it laid its hand, and its hand seems to have been well-nigh omnipresent. Not that the organization entered actively and distinctly into the political arena; for this is not true. Its potency became actual, and expressed itself in the main through the old party organizations ; but it was none the less the work of the Alliance as a great educator. The leaven of thought stimulated by the order, like all true leaven, worked up ancl worked outward. Even the lordly Senate, the least sensitive branch of the government, has passed one of the most radical measures demanded by the Alliance; and those members who stood out most stoutly against certain other measures demanded by the Alliance, upon grounds that involved fundamental and radical principles, are much less clear as to their duty since the people have spoken. Does any Alliance man falter in his faith, in view of these facts? Does any Alliance man in South Carolina permit his zeal to grow cold at the very moment when the conflict is coining to a crisis with all the odds in favor of our side if we are a unit? Perish the thought. The^pusi Is run of liisptrattun, suA ture is inviting. Let us rouse ourselves, and gird our loins for the crises that are surely coming. As one of the first and most necessary steps in this direction let us correct and purge our rolls. Those who are not eligible to membership should be dropped from the rolls, and notified by the secretary. Head over careftilly the elegibility clause, and apply it faithfully, u.r a,/, notion nf tho vfopnt snnreme council. I..V x.. _r the word "Country" when it occurs in this connection, menus those who live in rural districts and unincorporated villages. This excludes workers in factories, and all editors of papers that are not agricultural strictly, and that do not support all the demands of the Alliance. All who have been received heretofore who are inelligible, should be dropped from the roll and notified by the secretary of the fact. Let us get our forces together in compact and homogenous mass and then be ready to press our demands effectually. Put your lecturers to work in every county. Let the county Alliances provide for the payment of lecturers, and let each subAlliance put its lecturer to studying and working. As a necessary step to his equipment foi his work, he should have The Cotton Plant, and The National Economist. Let the Alliance supply these papers to him if need be, and then require of him some work. Let all hands then subscribe for The Cotton Plant at least, so that they may know whether he is talking the right doctrine. Brethren, let us get together, and get tc work. The prospect before us is limitless. II really begins to look like the farmer is goinjj to have "his inning" now after all these years. Let us use wisely our opportunities. Bui to use them wisely we must educate ourselves, and there is no better school than tin Alliance for farmers. Brethren, take courage and lend a hand I J. WM. Stokks, j President 8. C. S. F. A. MERE-MENTION. Ex-Governor Gordon of Georgia, was re lieved of #148 and a railroad ticket by u pickpocket at the Jersey City railroad station last Wednesday. The New York board of trade has adopted resolutions aguinsl the free coinage of silver. Luther Chafiu a young white man, who was employed in j saw mill at Lexington, Ga., was blown tc atoms last week by the explosion of a twentj horse boiler. He had allowed the water tc get too low Medical men have agrecc upon "Tui>erculine" as the name for J)r Koch's lymph. Over 1(1,000 miner) went on a strike in the Pennsylvania coa regions last week. Governor Northei of Georgia, has informed applicants for pen sions, under the recent pension laws of thai State, that it is unnecessary to put theii claims in the bands of lawyers, and the pen sion commissioner announces that all claim) that are represented by lawyers will 1>< pigeon holed to the last. Twelve con gressmen?one senator and eleven member) of the house?have died since the opcniiq of the present congress. Of these, t liree were from Pensylvania. James Kedpath, tin j famous Irish Nationalist, journalist and lee I turer, died in New York on Tuesday of lasi i week. His death resulted from injuries sus | tuined by being rim over l?y a street ear: j few days before. Kobert Bonner, wel I known us the founder of The New Yorl Ledger, is traveling in the South. Bus i iness failures tbrougout the eountry for tin ! week ending last Friday are reported by K ;(i. Dun & Co. as numbering 2(57 against 24t j for the same time last year. : Tilts is Vkitv Kind.--' It gives us muel pleasure to greet again upon our desk otu j old friend Thk Yoick vii.i.k Knijimukk j lake the fabled 1'luenix our friend rises Iron i the ashes of its former self with the sunn familiar, pleasing features, the same solic : worth. Though we have not been noisy ii jour condolence at the loss to the proprietoi and readers of Thk kmjrikkit, we hav? i been none the less sympathetic, with a syin pathy born of our own sense of privation i We congratulate our contemporary upon it; I enterprise and energy, and upon the brilliant success that has crowned its well directe< I efforts. We congratulate him upon his iv sinning, under such favorable auspices, tin thread of existence. We congratulate our j selves and the press of the State upon tin return of Thk Kncjcikkk to our exchangi j list. Cotton Plant. LOCAL AFFAIRi. I INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ' Richmond A Danville Railroad?-Ohange of ( Schedule.1 Ludden A Bates, Savannah, Ga.?44,000 Pianos , and Organs. Fourth Page. Beard A Inman?A Beautiful Line of Shirts, I Collars and Cuffs. i Win. C. Latimer?Five Thousand Pairs of Shoes to be Sold at About the Cost of the Materi- < al for Cash. i Application for Charter of the Christian Aid Society. ] Enquirer Office?Babbit Metal. J. S. Brice, General Agent, Yorkville, S. C.? Why Pay $100 per Year for Your Life In- ' surance. Lowry A Starr?To Give Away?Don't You Forget It?Lamps and lanterns?Often One ' M. A H. C. Strauss?No Packing Away. J Frew Bros. A Keesler, Rock Hill, S. C.?Our 1 Prices Suit the People. i Mrs. T. M. Dobson?Dobson's Racket. They Have Come. They are Pretty, etc. i Vonnwlv Rpns. <tr Barron?We Want to Close < Out. E. M. Bailes?Pay Up for The Enquirer. i Agnes Moore?When You Need Anything. Riddle & Carroll?A Train Load. F. Happerfleld?Nice Juicy Country Hams. TRIAL JUSTICES FOR YORK. Governor Tillman last week announced the following appointments of trial justices 1 for York county: W. 8. Adams, Bethesda, i J. P. Blair, Bullock's Creek, W. D. Camp, I Cherokee, H. E. Johnson, Bethel, J. A. Mc- I Mackin, King's Mountain. UNITED STATES JURORS. The following citizens of York county have been drawn to serve as jurors at the August term of the United States District court at Greenville: Grand Jurors.?J. L. Moore, Guthries- 1 ville; J. A. Pride, N. A. Moorman, Rock Hill. JIKktit Jurors.?8>M. FeweW, Rock Hill; Tnibs. M. Martin, Clay Hill; J. Butler Thomasson, J. H. Wallace, Robert Steele, Yorkville; J. Oscar Moore, McCOnnellsville; W. Scott Byers, Blacksburg. PROMPT PAYMENT. Mrs. A. W. Ingold has received a check from the American Legion of Honor for the sum of $4,000, the amount of the death beneilt due her on thp death of her husband, Mr. A. W. Ingold. Mr. Ingold died on January 12, and the check was drawn on January 30, aud received in Yorkville on last Thursday?just thirty days from the date of his death. He had been a member of the order for eight years, and during that time his assessments [ have amounted to only $455.84. RAILROAD EARNINGS FOR DECEMBER The monthly statement of the earnings of the various railroads throughout the State for the month of December, 1890, was issued by the railroad commissioners last Monday. From this statement we learn : The Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad earned $6,704.77 against $11,723.99 for the same month last year. The Chester and Lenoir earned $8,239.89 against $7,051.40. The Cheraw and Chester earned $2,132.16 against $2,061.19. The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta earned $70,509.37 against $66,043.49. The total increase in the aggregate earnings of all roads in the State is $91,463.53. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. E. Mclver Law of Brooklyn, N. Y., is visiting relatives in this place. Mrs. L. E. Bell of Rock Hill, is visiting friends and relatives here. Mrs. Mary J. Ingold has returned home from a short visit to Randleman, N. C. Miss Bruce C. McKemy of Moreland, Ga., is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. C. Galloway, of Yorkville. Dr. W. G. White of Yorkville, has been elected county physician by the county commissioners. Miss Julia Adlershiemer of Lowrysville, has returned to her home after a short visit to Mrs. John M. Moore of this place. C'apt. W. B. Smith, president of the Clover ^Manufacturing company, was in town last Monday. "Tie reponx mm ma ium i? meeting with splendid success, and the additional machinery recently purchased is soon to be placed in position. CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal?Rev. K. 8. Nelson, rector. Services next Sunday at 11 a. m. Sundayschool at 3.30 p. m. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, D. D., pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow afternoon 1 at 4 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. Baptist?Rev. Robert G. Patrick, pastor. Yorkville?Services next Sunday at 11 a. m. Sunday-school at 3.30 p. m. Union?Sunday-school at 2 p. m. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. H. 1 Waddell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this evening at 7 o'elook. Services next Sunday at 11a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. in. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. ! C. Galloway, pastor. Tirzali?Services next Sunday at 11.30 o'clock a. m. Yorkville? ' Men's Association meeting to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock. Services next Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3.30 o'clock p. m. AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT. | Mr. W. L. Goforth, of Yorkville, lost two valuable mules last Wednesday morning. They were crushed under a fulling tree, one being killed outright and the other having ' one leg broken. The accident occurred just outside the town limits, near the residence ' of Hon. It. H. Glenn, and the circumstances were about as follows : t Several choppers were cutting lumber tintf her, and the same was being hauled away with a four horse wagon. When the driver ' returned for a second load, the choppers had changed their position and were felling a large tree near the roadside. They were ob| scared from view by a thick growth of pines, und the driver was not apprised of his danger until he heard the crashing tree, which fell toward the road. Unable to get his team out of the way, he jumped down and t ran to a place of safety. It was the ' saddle" . I mule that was killed, and the ' oil"' mule that : was injured. H The loss to Mr. Goforth, including the ' J value of both mules?as the injured one is Jindw regarded as practically worthless?is r about $225. The injured animal, however, ) I is being given all the attention that its con I dilion seems to require. j MESSRS. BKAUCHAM1* AND DKMAllHi:. | Col. T. 15. Deniarree anil Hon. Lou J. t Beuuehamp, the popular prohihition and temperance workers, are holding a series of ' temperance meetings in Yorkville. 1 The meetings were commenced on last , Friday night with a lecture hy Col. Demuree, . and have been increasing in interest with - each additional lecture. * Mr. lk'uuchump delivered his first lecture ' on Saturday night. It was in the courti house, and the audience was literally car"m ried away with his bright, witty and original I sayings. His arguments are new and novel ; - his anecdotes are pointed and delightfully ? entertaining, and his logic is irresistible. ' On Sunday night Mr. lleauchamp conductk eil a union gospel temperance service in the , Presbyterian church. Every seat in the! main auditorium was filled, aud for forty ! ! minutes his audience listened to a powerful word picture of the degredatiou and despair j to which the demon drink leads its victims.' 1 Monday night's lecture was similar to the 1 others only in the proportion of increase in [ interest, and last night likewise. . The series of lectures will close tomorI row night with Professor I'eauehamp's pop* ular lecture "Sunshine." r Mr. Heauchamp is a native of Ohio, and began professional life as a newspaper man. i At twenty-two years of age he was editor of ^' a great morning daily in Dayton, and gave t promise of a most brilliant career as a jourI! nalist. I'nder the weight of the cares of his ' j great responsibilities, however, lie finally " i took to drink, and was brought to the verge , of despair. In a tit of drunken frenzy he at*. . i tempted suicide, shooting himself in the i right breast with a pistol. On being nursed back to life, he resolved to give himself over entirely to the temperance cause, and has ever since been one of the most earnest prohibition workers in the land. He was an active participant in the various campaigns by which several of the Western States have been induced to incorporate a prohibition clause in their respective constitutions, and has done much to intensify and crystalize prohibition sentiment in the East. Col. T. B. Demaree is also a temperance worker of distinguished reputation. Since 1878 he has been Grand Chief Templar of the State of Kentucky, and since 1884 he has been giving his whole time to the cause, lecturing under the auspices of the grand lodge of the world. Since 1874 he has organized over 1,600 lodges of I. O. G. T., and initiated over 55,000 members. He has been r*nM/vl!nn nk/Mi4 4V*mnntVia unH Ill KVUbU VOIUllIItt OUVUV bill vv 1UV1I?U0| muv. its the results of his labors so far, reports 24 lodges and about 1,000 members. BURGLARY AND LARCENY. Monroe White, a 17 year old negro, was brought over from Fort Mill last Monday night and lodged in jail on a commitment by Trial Justice Withers on the charge of burglary and larceny. His crime was a bold and adroit piece of work that would have done credit to a professional. He entered the store of Mr. R. A. Fulp, while the latter was at prayer meeting, by breaking open the back door with a crowbar, and finding the safe unlocked, carried away three cash drawers, containing about $85 or $90. No clue as to the burglar ^vas obtained until Saturday morning, when White entered the store of Mr. K. Shannon with a request to have a ten dollar bill changed. Mr. Shannon changed the money, but being suspicious, at once informed Mr. Fulp of the circumstance. A warrant was then sworn out and White was arrested. He at first denied his guilt, but finally confessed and $65 of the stolen money was recovered. Since his arrest, it is the general belief of the people in Fort Mill, that the young villain is responsible for a number of similar crimes that have recently been perpetrated in that town. A TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. News of a frightful accident to the north iKmnd Narrow Gauge freight train, reached here yesterday. Only unsatisfactory details can be gathered, but from the best information we can obtain, eight men were killed, and the engine and thirteen cars were demolished. The accident occurred within a short distance of Smyer Creek trestle, about two miles south of Newton, N. C. The engine suddenly iumDed the track and the whole train of thirteen cars was precipitated down a twenty-foot embankment. With the exception of the engineer, Mr. Shannon, every person on board, including three passengers and four trainmen, was killed. The names of the passengers are as follows : Rev. Mr. Little, principal of the Dallas High school; R. L. Johnson of Gastonia, formerly of Yorkville ; and a man thought to be a Mr. Morrow of Chester. The names of the trainmen are as follows: Conductor Charlie Dunlap, Fireman Hogg, Flagman Ross, and Brakemen Cornwall and Williams, the two last named colored. Such is the dreadful story as it comes to us. We have been unable to verify the same, however, and are hopeful that when fuller particulars are received the death list will not be so appalling. THE BURNED FILES. We are pleased to acknowledge the receipt of some more old Enquirers. Mrs. James W. and Miss AllieFewell have sent a number of copies, including dates back In 1R3B. ? Mis. C. H. Blair of Blairsville, sends us a list of papers that she has 011 hand, dating back to 1879. Mr. S. N. Johnson of Bethel, sends the issues of November 2 and 9, 1871. Miss E. C. Curroll of Yorkville, lias our thauks for the following : 1870.?January 24, February 10, March 3, aud 24, April 14, May 5, 12 and 24, June, 2 9 and 26, August 4, September 22, October 6 aud 27. 1871.?January 5, February 16 aud 23, March 23, April 6,13, 20, May 11, June 1, 8, 29, July 6, August 10, 17, September 14, October 26, November 10. To make the file complete we require the following: All issues of the year 1855. Of 1870, numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 16, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,32,34,36, 37, 39 41, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52. Of 1871, numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 17, 18 24, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 46 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. Four weeks ago there was not a single copy of the 104 papers that constitute the file of these last two years in our possession This week we require only fifty-five more papers?thirty-one of 1870, and twenty-foui of 1871. We are really proud of the results, so fai achieved, and again return thanks to each and every one who has contributed to the completion of the task. DEATH OF MR. V. HAPPERFIELD. Mr. F. Happerlield, Sr., died at his home in this place yesterday morning at 11.4.1 o'clock. His death was due to a sudden stroke of upoplexy which occurred on Monday about half-past eleven. Though the stroke was preceded by a slight illness before it came on, Mr. Happerlield was still able to attend to business, and was stricken down in his store while making change at the safe. A sudden blindness came on, he lost power over his limbs, and in a short while became speechlesss and lay in a comatose condition until death ensued twenty-four hour* later. Mr. Happerlield was born in Sonnnersel county, England, in 1881, and came to Ameriea in 1850, locating in Yorkville two years later. At the breaking out of the war, he was one of the first volunteers from this section, and went away from Yorkville with the famous Jasper Light Infantry. He continued in active service until the surrender of (Jen, Lee, without losing a day from the front except on special duty, and all during tin war had the reputation among his comrade* of being a soldier of extraordinary coolness and courage. Returning to Yorkville immediately aftci the war, he engaged in the manufacture o brick, but finally becoming involved in tin unsettled financial condition of the times abandoned the business and commenced ti learn the marble-cutter's trade. In this vocation be was eminently successful, and soor developed into a finished workman. II< commenced for himself in that line in 1809 and by skillful and judicious managemeui and plenty of hard work, accumulated i competence. Since 1880, in connection with the murbh business, he has also been merchandising and has met with uniform success. In the death of Mr. IJapperficld, thetowi | of Yorkville sustains a loss that it is hard L estimate. In the matter of sound nusines: judgment and deep interest in the welfan of tlie community, he had lew peers and m superiors. He was hroadminded and unsclf ish, and possessed of all the noble qualities that are ealeulated to gain for a citizen tin respect and esteem of his fellows. He lias ahly served the town as warden and as intendant ; was president of tin j Yorkville t'einetary Association, a momhei | of the hoard of trustees of the Yorkvilh (Innled Schools, and also supervisor of reg i istration for York county. Not only was he a most important factoi for good in civil affairs, hut his worl in the church was even more zealous i He was in every sense of the word a trm I ami consistent Christian, and as a meinher o | the Methodist church, has contributed a fill share toward the accomplishment of al that has been done by that denominatioi j since the war. I The funeral services will he conducted a ! Trinity church this afternoon at .'1 o'eloel by Kev. (?. H. Waddell. Presiding Klde: I Chreitzberg has been telegraphed for am may also be present. The remains will 1h i interred with Masonic ceremonies. LOCAL LACqpiCS. ? The auditor's books will be closed next Friday. ^ ? Washington's birthday falls on Sunday this year, and next Monday will be a legal holiday. ? Mr. H. H. Beard is adding some exterior improvements to his residence on Congress street. ? Professor Beauchamp has accepted an invitation to deliver a special lecture before the Chautauqua literary circle, of Yorkville, to-morrow afternoon. ? The District Lodge of I. 0. G. T., which held its meeting in Chester on Tuesday of last week, adjourned to hold its next meeting in Yorkville, on the fourth Tuesday in May. ? Messrs. Goforth & Ormand, railroad contractors of this place, left for Virginia last week to begin work on a contract that has recently been awarded them on the Roanoke and Southern railroad. ? John McCants, formerly a citizen of Yorkville, and a native of York county, died at his home at Hoschton, Jackson county, Ga., on the 10th instant, from heart disease. He was aged 67 years. ? Mr. Newton B. Craig died at his residence in Gastonia, N. C., on Friday, the 13th instant. Mr. Craig was formerly a resident of Bethel township in this county and was about 79 years of age. ? The members of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 32, A. F. M., are requested to assemble at the lodge room this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, to participate in the burial service of their lately deceased brother, vMr. F. Happerfield. ? Rev. G. H. Waddell has announced that Rev. Thos. H. Leitch, the well known evangelist, is coming back to Yorkville soon. He expects to begin a? series of meetings/ in Trinity M. E. church on the first Sunday in March. ? We have been requested by Rev. W. A. M. Plaxico to give notice that he will not be able to fill the appointment mode for him to preach in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church at Hickory Grove onthe fo urth Sunday of this month. ? A negro dance on East Madison street last Thursday night netted the town council the sum of $23. The dance was given by Mattie White, and culminated in a tree tight. The participants were brought before Intcndant Withers next morning and assessed in the aggregate as stated above. ? We have been requested to give notice that the annual meeting of the Jetf Davis Association of Confederate Veterans of Fort Mill, will be held at Flint Hill church, in Fort Mill township, on Saturday, the 9th of May, 1891. Gen. E. M. Law, of Yorkville, will deliver an address on the occasion. ? Clerk of the Court Wylie has just received a dozen copies of the Acts and Joint Resolutions passed by the General Assembly at its recent session. The book comprises 886 pages, bo'und in paper, and in its general get up and arrangement is pronounced by the court house officials to be superior to any similar publication of former years. ? Capt. Moore informs us that Adjutant and Inspector General Farley has accepted an invitation to be present on the occasion of the presentation of the Wallace troop flag to the Jenkius Rifles, and will act as one of the judges in the competitive prize drill. Mrs. G. D. Wallace is also to he invited to be present and the committee has good reason to hope that she' will accept. ? Mr. Thomas H. Allen, of the Bethany neighborhood, is much interested in the Sharon fox chases, but tells a story that puts him ahead of his Sharon brethren. He says that since lost fall he and Mr. L. A. McGill, of the same neighborhood, have caught eleven foxes, and all were full grown except two. If any one doubts his story, he extends a cordial invitation to come up and see the "brushes." ? On last Saturday Col. T. B. Demaree, the temperance lecturer, received a unique valentine. It was enclosed in an envelope postmarked Sumter, S. C., and was nothing less than a check for a liberal amount. There was not a line to indicate the sender, and Col. Demaree has uot the slightest surmise has to who may have sent it. If the work of the two gentlemen, Messrs. Beauchamp and Demarree, was as effective in Hurnter us it it. to be Yorkville/iTls uot imnrnhahla that the check is simply a silent .M.r.VWW . . expression of gratitude on the part of some father or wife who has been incalculably benefitted through their efforts. A K KM ARK ABLE EXPERIMENT. In a paper recently read before the Edgefield County Alliance, Mr. W. 8. Allen, of Fruit Hill, 8. C., tells how he last year made | 4,437 pounds of lint cotton on two-and-a| half acres of ground. The land, he says, is what would properly be called clover sod, as it had been in clover i for the past three years and yielded $40 worth , of clover hay to the acre each year. The ( preparation was as follows: The land was turned up on the 13th of February with a two-horse Fanner's Friend plow, followed by a one horse subsoil plow. After the land was broken it was rolled with a heavy two-horse roller, and allowed to lay i in that condition until the first of March, r when it was laid off with a long six-inch shovel, followed by a ten inch shovel, in > rows five feet apart. In the rows was then i deposited two hundred bushels of green cotton seed, fresh from the gin house, and one thousand pounds of acid phosphate was ridg> ed on with a small turn plow. At this point - the patch was left alone until the 10th ol ' April, on which date a small bull-tongue ' plow was run into the ridges to incorporate the cotton seed and acid phosphate with the ' soil, and also to some extent, to prevent the ' cotton from dying out after it should come - up. Five hundred pounds of ainwoniated guano was then added and the laud was bedded out with a Farmer's Friend turn plow. ( The bed was opened with a bull tongue, and | after applying five hundred pounds of am( inoniatcd dissolved bone, the seed was planted with a Dow Law planter, and the after , cultivation was after the usual plan with hoe | and sweep. I Following is Mr. Allen's statement as to | the expense of his crop : , Turning 21 acres clover sod with one hand and two horses $ 3 00 Subsoiling, 1 horse 2 00 Rolling, 2 oxen '2 00 , Laying off and balding out same 2 50 200 bushels cotton seeu and putting in the same 27 50 i 1,000 pounds acid phosphide and putting in the same. 10 00 . 1,000 pounds ammoniated dissolved bone.. 15 00 ' Ploughing cotton four times 2 00 Hoeing cotton three times 3 00 I Picking 1" 75 , Dinning and packing 0 55 Bagging and ties <? 70 i Total expense on 21 acres 8101 00 [ Cr. bv 4,437 pounds lint cotton at!? cents "per pound 3W .'13 ' | 2li)i bushels cotton seed at 121<*. per bushel 33 25 I Dross proceeds on 21 acres 432 5H . I Deduct expenses above 101 00 ' j Total $331 5H : Mr. Allen says that lie is satisfied that the above result can be excelled, and if farmers '; will only plant less and manure better, their 'J profits will be much greater than under the ' j present system. Referring to his achieveI tmeiit as stated above, he says that the best " I acre of the plat made a fraction over four 1; bales of 4(17 pounds each. On the reiuain'' ing one-and-one-half acres the stand was not Mso good, and of course the yield was less. II Five feet apart was entirely too close for the 11 rows, ami a good deal of the cotton rotted in l consequence of not having enough room. -1 Concluding his report, he says: "Hut at all events, I was much pleased with the result, and shall plant the same plat next year and 1 j try to raise live bales to the acre. 1 believe ' I it can be done. The variety of cotton plant4 led was the 'Hawkins. -'! ->j TIIK WOKK (IF CONHKKSS. j A Washington dispatch of last Sunday 41 gives the following as a summary of the " | work of congress during the past week and a forecast of the work that is to Ik* done du{ ring the present week : r The energy displayed by congress during . the past week in action upon the general - appropriation bills lias bad the result ol placing these measures in a state of forwardi 11ess that compares favorably with the rei cord of preceding congresses in the short . session. Although none of them have bei j come laws, two (the army and fortification f bills) have been agreed upon in conference 1 and will doubtless reach the president in :i I day or two. Four appropriation bills (tin i District of Columbia, Military Academy pension and naval) have passed both bouse? t and will go to the linal conference stage a? c; soon as the necessary order can be made bj r the house of representatives. The diplo II matic and consular appropriation bill ha? l? been reported to the senate, and the legis 1 lative, executive and judicial appropriation bill and the "sundry civil" bill, are awaiting the action of the senate committee on appro* priatfons. The Indian appropriation bill is under consideration by the house, and two appropriation bills, the postoffice and agricultural, are on the calendar, thus leaving only one of thirteen regular appropriation bills (the- general deficiency) to be yet prepared by the committee and reported to the house. The copyright bill, is unfinished business before the senate.. Whether its considers- ' tion be resumed on Monday, however, depends upon the majority's estimate of the amount of time that will be required to reach the point of final action.' Senator Hale has stated his intention to ball up the diplomatic appropriation bill on Monday, but as friends of the copyright bill are confident that the measure is in such shape that it cannot consume much more time, it will probably be brought to a final vote before the diplomatic bill is taken up.: The sundry civil and legislative appropriation bills are to be reported some time during the week, and will be pressed at onoe upon the senate's oonsidera" ? ?? -ik.. A.. tlOQ. UODiereoce repuruj uu uwci aim iuither advanced appropriation bills will also be submitted for action. -w The Republican caucus list of measures selected for consideration in intervals between the discussion of appropriation bills, is as follows: Indian depredation bill; Nicarauga canal bill; pure food and Conger lard bills; army reorganization bill; land court bill; bankruptcy bill; revenue marine bill; inter-State commerce bill, and Pacific railroad funding bill. The silver question still remains the most absorbing topic of discussion among members of the house, and there is constant fear on the*part of conservative members that it may, at some unexpected time, bwsgraag on . the house in an unlooked^fir shape. The. belief has, however, now become quite general and strong that no silver bUl can be taken up in advance of the seport from the coinage committee. This committee has lately shown a disposition to cease farther hearings and vote on the bill before it. Silver men are confident that the bill will be reported to the house before the end of the week, and a Republican caucus, which has been called for Monday, may have some influence on the course to be pursued in regard to this measure by the majority. A Man op Couhage;.?There is one man whose name will go into history as the heroic statesman of his age; the one man who dared to be right, and to speak for the right, even at the cost of political success. In 1887 Grover Cleveland dared every thing to rescue the people from the most wanton taxes upon the masses for the benefit of a few privileged classes. It cost him the presidency, but his teaching has triumphed by the largest popular majority of American history. The country is now convulsed by the silver issue, and most of those who revolted to escape oppressive taxation have been misled into the free silver craze by the dream of cheap and abundant money. Business men know that cheap money is the sorest disaster to the people, but there is flood-tide in the free silver boom and it threatens all who*attempt to obstruct it. There was no special need for Grover Cleveland to speak on the silver issue beyond the inspiration of heroic manhood, but he would cease to be the Grover Cleveland who left the presidency proud of defeat, if he had not spoken on free silver when opportunity presented. The Cooper Union meeting of Wednesday evening gave opportunity, and Mr. Cleveland wrote a letter in earnest protest against "the dangerous, the reckless experiment of free, unlimited and independent silver coinage." Whethether this patriotic expression will make Mr. Cleveland an unavailable candidate for president in 1892, must depend upon circumstances yet in the future, but it will make him leader of leaders in honest, patriotic, courageous statesmanship.?Philadelphia Times. The Teachers' Assembly.?Last year, at the meeting of the State Teachers' Association at Greenville, a committee was appointed to take charge of a movement looking to the formation of a teachers' assembly. The committee was directed to I'ruvvv ? ? 0- r fall powers. The organization has been effected, and has filed a declaration for a charter. The commission states that the stock will consist of $10,000, shares at $5. The following are the officers: Prof. W. J, Thackston, assistant superintendent of education, president; J. F. Brown, of Newberry, secretary; E. P. McKissick, treasurer; board of directors, H. P. Archer, superintendent city schools, Charleston; Patterson Wardlaw, Darlington; Robert Morrison, Camden; J. C. Cook, Ninety-Six. The president will appoint one "councillor" for each county. The place where the building is to be erected has not been chosen, although there are many offers from which , to select. Major Jones of Blacksburg, has offered to build the assembly house for $1,000 less than any other offer. There is also a particularly good offer from persons owning land near and on Paris Mountain. The railway companies have also offered to transport the material free of charge. Among those who have made such offers are Col. John H. Averill and Capt. 8. V. McBee. Should be Returned at Market Value.?Heretofore it has been the custom to make returns of bank stock at its par value instead of assessing the suine at what it was worth on the market. Attention was called to the matter in the governor's inaugural address, and since that time the comptroller ' ' ~ !- ] K!a /?/vn_ generui nus receiveu icucis umviug ?? ?-???? struetion of the law. The News and Courier of last Saturday prints the following from that official addressed to W. M. Connor, president of the American Savings Bank, of Charleston: "Replying to yours of the 12th, in reference to returns of hanks for taxation, I beg to state that a careful examination of the law will show that your idea of your duty as to the making of that return is not exactly in accord with the law. The law, Section 198 et seq, requires all shares to be listed at their true value in money. Suppose the sliares of your bank to be worth on the markets in Charleston $200 per share, the par value being 8100, your return then would bo 150 shares at $200, or $.'10,000. From which deduct (auditor i must) the amount of real estate as assessed (supi posed $5,000), your bank would pay taxes on i $25,000. The reason for not retaxing the surplus i personal property and real estate, as in other cases, Ls that they are already taxed in the prei mium on the shares. This is our construction of the law, and the auditors will be instructed to so i execute it. i "It is the dutv of the auditors to ascertain the i real money value of all bank stock, and where i not correctly returned, placed on the tax books at the real market value. While I have not attempted a statement hi detail of my understandi ing of the law as it stands, 1 hope I am sufficiently explicit." Amove All, Tt is a Newspaper.?The Yorkvili.e Enquirer 1ms issued its lirst number of volume thirty-seven. It has fully recovered from the effects of the fire on 1 November 23, 1890, and with its new outfit ; is more progressive and vigorous than many of its neighbors of younger age. Like good wine, The Enquirer seems to improve with eacii year auueu 10 us me. n is an lueai county newspaper in its general appearance and its well-selected reading matter. Its tone is elevating and improving. Nothing questionable ever finds its way into the columns of Thk Enquirer. Above all, it is a newspaper. Its well-selected corps of correspondents keep its readers fully informed of all that is happening in York county and the country around about.?News and Courier. yesterday. ? J. B. Williams, the murderer of Maj. W. A. Williams, of (Jreenville, was captured last Wednesday at Balsam Station, ten miles from Waynesville, N. C. He was on his way to Kentucky, and was caught by a man named Reno, who lives on Pigeon river. Williams was taken hack to Greenville and committed to jail. When caught he was i traveling under the name of John Simpson. '' He offered 110 resistance to his captors, hut i said he wished he had never left Greenville, . j as he had had a very rough time of it through I the mountains. He claims that the killing J was done in self defense. His captors will ji get rewards to the amount of $750?$G00 r; from the murdered man's relatives and $150 i from the governor. Its Pluck is Invincible.?The York| vn.lk Enquirer completed its thiry-sixth year last Wednesday, and enters upon vol1 time thirty-seven. All of the time that has ' j been lost by the fire of the 23d of November, 1 1890, has been made good, and The Knqui': kek is now better than ever. It is a prime j paper and its pluck is invincible.?Augusta * Chronicle, 18th. *1 ' ? Barry O'Donnell, an Anderson barkeep-i er, was convicted of selling whisky to a mi* | nor last week in the sessions court and sen j teneed to pay a line of $25, or go to jail for 1 ten days.